The Vancouver Whitecaps have released their protected list for the upcoming expansion draft, basically 11 players other teams will not be able to get their grubby paws on. According to the Whitecaps official news release, they’ve decided to protect the following 11:
Christian Bolanos
Christian Dean
Jordan Harvey
Erik Hurtado
Andrew Jacobson
Matias Laba
Kekuta Manneh
Nicolas Mezquida
David Ousted
Tim Parker
Kendall Waston
The Whitecaps also have their homegrown players on the automatically protected list, meaning Sam Adekugbe, Marco Bustos, Alphonso Davies, Kianz Froese, Ben McKendry, and Russell Teibert are off limits.